I love these 2 Gatta (cat) designs... they are so gorgeous and I do plan to stitch them both..... Thank you Kaye :o)

Til next time, have a great stitchy week... take care and happy stitching xxBecause I love this picture so much I am going to keep it at the bottom of every GG post.... Miss Mouse is the most loving puppy you could ever have... her love is a gift to us so I think it is quite fitting that she is in my 2018 GG posts!

Jo from Serendipitous Stitching hosts the Gifted Gorgeousness SAL. The GG SAL is about stitching charts/kits or using fabrics & threads that we have received as gifts, won in giveaways or anything that is intended be a gift or giveaway prize... or anything else that you can loosely use the word "gift" for!! If you wish to sign up for this SAL, click on link here, or the button on my sidebar and you will be re-directed to Jo's blog.

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

It has begun! The craziness that is Stitch Maynia 2018 is up and running!

If you have been hearing, or seeing, all the recent references to Stitch Maynia around the social media world, but don't actually know what Stitch Maynia is about.... below is my brief description....Back in 2015 a group of stitchers decided to give themselves a challenge and do 15 starts in 15 days in the month of May. Now this sounded like a manic type of thing to do hence the challenge was called "Stitch Mania" with Mania being spelt with a "y" to denote the month of May! A Facebook group was born out of the original challenge and this year the challenge just seems to have completely exploded! A link to the Stitch Maynia Facebook Group is linked here. The group has over 10,000 people in it now and it is just the most fun place to go to see beautiful stitching***

This year my Stitch Maynia plan is to try and do 18 starts in 18 days for 2018 and then spend the rest of the month of May focusing on one or two WIPs (that part is still to be decided about!)

So hold onto your hats... take a seat, grab a cuppa and enjoy the show!

Starts 4 & 5 were both started on Saturday 5th May as we were out on Friday 4th and I didn't end up getting any stitching time in other than 15 mins to stitch a tiny bit more of the spider web on Boo Club so that I could start "Eek". I then spent way too much time on "Eek" o Saturday afternoon which meant that "Lesson 1" only got a light touch when we got back from dinner on Saturday night.... busy social weekend in our house - for a change!Start 6/18 - 6th May 2018
Start #34/2018Forest SnowfallCountry Cottage NeedleworksFabric: 28ct Opal Brittney "November Rain" 2017 Limited Edition / Jodyri DesignsThread: DMC & Classic Colourworks as chartedOther SALs: #pcforestsnowfallsal with Chelsea & Priscilla

I have had this kit (and it's sister kit "Pagoda View") in my stash for quite some time... I even did a post about it when I received it from the UK in 2010!
So that's Week 1 of "Stitch Maynia" done and dusted.... 11 more starts to come to achieve 100% for this challenge - I am pretty sure that I can manage that 😉 The next phase of the challenge I am combining with another Stitch Maynia group SAL celebrating Katy "The Stash Queen's" birthday, which means I there should, hopefully, be some method to my madness! Or not!! 😁

Til next time, happy Stitch Maynia and happy stitchingHugs xx

*** Stitch Maynia FB Group Disclaimer... they do allow adult stitching type content so be aware that there is the occasional subversive post in the group! Most of us just scroll on by, or block the poster, if we don't wish to see that sort of stitching.

Monday, April 30, 2018

The object of the WIPocalypse is to stitch on projects that you want to complete before the end of the world, or the end of the year - whichever might come first! WIPocalypse is run by Melissa over at Measi's Musings and is now in it's 7th year.

For 2018 I am going to try and work on 18 projects (ie 18 in 2018!). The full list of my projects can be found on my WIPocalypse 2018 page.

April was a brilliant month for my WIPocalypse projects... I managed a finish! 😁

Question of the month: Talk to us about your longest-running WIP or UFO

Now which of the long running WIPs / UFOs should I admit to that I have and can talk about? If I focus on what is on my WIPocalypse list, then the oldest WIP would be Lizzie Kate's "Jingles". I started this one way back in April 2014 as a SAL with some bloggers (start post is here)... and 4 years later it is still not finished! I love these cute charts but for some reason I just haven't finished the series, and now I have hit a wall with it as I have made a big boo-boo and I don't feel like kissing the frog!!

I thought that I had taken a photo of my stuff up... but I can't find it... essentially I used the wrong colour for the bell in the 2nd last chart - the "Joy" chart (ie I have stitched the white bit with a green thread instead of using the white - goodness knows how I did that!!)... I am so close to finishing that I really should just put my big girl pants on and deal with it!!! Stay tuned! 💁

So a great month of WIP stitching for me - most of the projects that I stitched on fitted in with the Stitch Maynia "Coffee Stitcher Birthday SAL" - bonus!!

Fingers crossed that May is another good month, although it is Stitch Maynia so watch out for all the new starts that will come up in next month's update!

Monday, April 23, 2018

Ok... here we go again.... another update post.... you don't hear from me for months and then you get your blog news feed filled up with my stitching!! I found this in my draft blog listing - apparently I forgot to come back and finish it off and post it!! 😟

So what was in the stitching basket for March?

I previously posted my March WIPocalypse post and the update is here. On that post I showed you Christmas Quaker II, Boo Club, Happily Ever After, Little Sheep Virtues and Shimmering Mermaid. They each got some love, as did some other WIPs. There were some new starts and some finishes during March that weren't in the linked post.. so strap yourself in and let's go back to the future!

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Hi, my name is Leonie, but my family nickname is Noni - the "L" was too hard for little tongues to get around!! I wish that I had more time to spend cross stitching and blogging, but unfortunately work and life sometimes get in the way! We share our house and garden with Mitzi, a very loving, boisterous King Charles Cavalier puppy (just ask the cats) and 2 beautiful cats, Oscar and Felix.